The Speed Art Museum broke the bad news on December 30, and the rest of us are catching up to it.
The text:
Tomorrow, December 31 is Wiltshire At The Speed’s last day of operation and we will welcome a new cafe partner in Spring of 2024. Thank you to the entire Wiltshire staff for providing our guests with delicious, artful cuisine over the past 8 years. Be sure to visit their other locations on West Main Street and Barret Avenue. Wiltshire’s catering services will continue out of their original Highlands location. What was your favorite Wiltshire treat? We will especially miss that chocolate cookie.
Wiltshire enjoyed an eight-year run at the museum, and as we await details about The Speed’s new cafe partner, Haley Cawthon has more on the story at Louisville Business First: Wiltshire Pantry closes longtime location at Speed Art Museum.
In a phone interview, owner Susan Hershberg told me that as Wiltshire enters its 35th year in business, she wanted to be able to concentrate on what it does best: off-premise catering. She said because of regular events at the Speed, Wiltshire didn’t have the flexibility to take on as many catering jobs.
“It’s been a really good run here,” Hershberg said, noting that 2023 was Wiltshire at the Speed’s best year. “Being here when the museum opened, it was an extremely dynamic period of time and, really, as I walk through the halls now, a tremendous honor for us to have been here and to be able to do the projects that we did do. … I don’t want to lose sight of that at all.”
